Domaine Treloar Cotes du Roussillon One Block

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Treloar and Hesford's 2009 Cotes du Roussillon One Block - not their only wine whose name alludes to 9/11, which they experienced one block from the World Trade Center, triggering the decision to follow their wine growing dreams - is essentially pure Grenache, and like most of their reds matured in barriques of varying ages. Pure, juicy black raspberry fruit is subtly-integrated with notes of piquant fruit pit, licorice, and smoky black tea. This is as polished as any of the Treloar cuvees I tasted, even if not enormously complex. I suspect it will be best enjoyed over the next 3-4 years, but that is honestly only a guess. Like so many modern wine growers, English-born Jonathan Hesford - trained as a physicist - admits to having "just started out as a lover of wine" and then gotten carried-away. He and his wife Rachel Treloar left her native New Zealand in 2005 after acquiring a run-down old winery in Trouillas (not far south of Perpignan) with diverse parcels of various cepages. The attraction of Roussillon was - as it has been for so many "outsiders" - the availability of proven terroir and old vines at a reasonable price; and "what impressed me," says Hesford about the Les Aspres sector, "is that there's a lot of (water-retentive) clay in the soil, so you get a bit more freshness into the wine. For the kinds of wine I wanted to make, I thought this was more appropriate than, say, the Agly Valley." The kinds of wine Hesford makes are really quite diverse, not to mention evolving, and promising.There is at present no U.S. importer.